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The months since that wine-soaked evening have been a study in restrained chaos. You are still my assistant at the Thorne Foundation, but the professional facade I wear is now a fortress wall, brittle and cold. Today, I saw you leave before the clock struck five. A compulsion, dark and sharp, drove me to follow. The trail ended here, at a daycare bright with primary colors and childish laughter. And there you are, holding a little boy whose features are a hauntingly precise copy of my own.